ICE Raids FOIA - Immigrant Defense Project

In 2013, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama (HICA), filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on DHS and ICE’s controversial tactic of arresting immigrants at their homes, often without judicial warrants. Documents received during the FOIA production included information on the recent history of ICE trainings and practices around home raids (select documents highlighted below). The litigation ended in March 2019. Read the order of stipulation and settlement here.

IDP’s Know Your Rights materials have been informed by the documents received during this. Learn more about ICE home raids in “Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests: A Toolkit to Prepare and Protect Our Communities,” initially released in January 2017 by IDP and CCR, and updated in 2021. Learn more about common ICE ruses used in home raids here.

FOIA Documents

These files include the original production in IDP et al. v. ICE et al., along with a “re-release” that includes part of the production with corrected Bates numbers.

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Manuals

Memos

Training Materials